The academy said Ashkin developed "optical tweezers" that can grab tiny particles such as viruses without damaging them. The only other female victor is famed historical physicist Marie Curie.

Then, in 1987, he used the tweezers to capture living bacteria without harming them.

The inventions revolutionized the field, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences noted in its announcement. However, in this celebratory narrative, let us not get carried away by Strickland's achievement - that of a woman winning the physics Nobel Prize - because it is not an achievement. But now that Donna Strickland has been awarded a part of the physics Nobel, it is impossible to ignore her gender. They paved the way towards the shortest and most intense laser pulses created by humankind. This consideration automatically renders its male laureates - especially white male laureates from the U.S. and Europe, the overwhelming fraction - as being bearers of an extreme privilege apart from also being men who undertook commendable scientific work.

A reporter asked the professor what it felt like to be the third woman in history to win the physics prize. In work that formed Strickland's PhD thesis, she and Mourou took inspiration from a radar technique.

"It is also a personal delight to see Dr Strickland break the 55-year hiatus since a woman has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, making this year's award all the more historic".

Mourou and Strickland are honored for their "chirped pulse amplification" - a technique that has allowed researchers to boost the power of lasers. It quickly became a standard for subsequent high-intensity lasers finding many varied applications including in the life-changing corrective eye surgeries that are so common today.

"This year's prize is about tools made from light", Göran Hansson, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, summarizing awards during his remarks at the press conference.

"Ultra-sharp laser beams make it possible to cut or drill holes in various materials extremely precisely - even in living matter", the Nobel Prize twitter account noted.

The inventions by the three scientists date back to the mid-1980s and over the years they have revolutionized laser physics.

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The allegations form the basis of Mayorga's claims of coercion and fraud, racketeering and civil conspiracy, and abuse of process. Ronaldo's representatives denied the rape allegations when German publication Der Spiegel first reported them in 2017.

Today, immunotherapies based on Allison and Honjo's research work especially well for fighting advanced and aggressive tumors. The literature prize will not be given this year because of a sexual misconduct scandal at the body that decides the award.

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